What I notice about people who are gifted in filmmaking is that they're great thinkers. They engage with big ideas and they engage with people.

The thing I love about acting is that you can bring something very personal into the open and at the same time remain hidden because you're always playing a character in a story that someone else has imagined. You're always protected.

I don’t think that actors are necessarily any more uncomfortable in their skin than anyone else. I suppose I feel more comfortable in my skin now, but you’re always playing a character, aren’t you? You tell different versions of yourself to different people and vice versa. Here, or in the photo shoot or wherever, it’s a representation of you. It’s not you-you. That’s how you get through it.

I love films. I love music. I love poetry and stories. All of that I feel… I sort of get very excited and fed by.

Dustin Hoffman also never does the same thing twice which is totally stimulating because you're always getting something new from him. You never really know what he's going to do next, so you have to be on your toes.

I don't think I am especially interested in celebrities, but I love talking about what is going on with people and why they do what they do.

When you have a character to work with, you carry them around in a strange way - they make you look at the world in a different way.